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Irwin Mitchell
Financial Penalties for Employers
Since 6 April 2014, Employment Judges have had the power to issue a fine (in addition to any compensation awarded to the employee) where...
11/07/17
Irwin Mitchell
Council investment in Commercial Property
The Times has reported that local authorities are investing heavily in commercial property in an attempt to replace lost revenue from...
11/07/17
Joanne Moseley
Do we really need another category of worker?
Deliveroo has called for the Government to overhaul workers’ rights legislation to allow it to give its delivery riders benefits without...
07/07/17
Joanne Moseley
Are you one of the 18% of employers who don't know how the apprenticeship levy works?
From 6 April 2017 employers with a payroll of over £3 million have been required to pay 0.5% of their payroll costs to HMRC to fund the...
06/07/17
Joanne Moseley
Gig workers already have rights - all we have to do is enforce them
That is the message from the General Secretary of the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain. His point is that many of these so...
06/07/17
Joanne Moseley
More self employed drivers claim worker status
An Employment Tribunal will start to hear the latest in a long of cases where so called self employed drivers (in this case from the taxi...
05/07/17
Nicola Gooch
It's the start of consultation season ... and we need to talk about Mayoral CIL
It has long been a pet theory of mine that government departments deliberately time their public consultations to coincide with the...
05/07/17
Irwin Mitchell
It's not just about Polar Bears.....
Paul Fisher, former MPC member, and former deputy head of the PRA, writes in IPE "If the financial crisis taught us anything, it is that...
03/07/17
Joanne Moseley
Dept for Education is the first government department to publish gender pay gap
All organisations employing 250 employees or more are required to publish the raw data setting out their gender pay gap by 4 April 2018...
29/06/17
Nicola Gooch
The Minister's Dilemma: Build Up or Build Out
It is probably an understatement to say that Alok Sharma began his tenure as Housing Minister in extremely difficult circumstances. The...
29/06/17
Irwin Mitchell
Too hot to work?
Our clients are often surprised that there is no legal guidance on maximum workplace temperature. The Workplace (Health, Safety and...
20/06/17
Joanne Moseley
UK workers are cheated out of at least £1.5bn a year
According to a research group at Middlesex University business school in a report called Unpaid Britain one in 20 workers say that they...
20/06/17
Nicola Gooch
The Joy of Festivals: There is a lot of red-tape behind the revelry
The 2017 festival season is now, officially, well under way. The Isle of Wight and Download have already taken place. This week,...
19/06/17
Irwin Mitchell
Are we talking about the same sector?
Those of us with memories will recall the nursing home crisis of the recession. And, indeed, earlier this year, the Guardian, at...
15/06/17
Nicola Gooch
And now for something completely different - Let's take a break from politics and talk PropTech
This morning, whilst listening to Radio 4, I heard: "There has been an awful lot of politics lately". This single sentence neatly sums...
15/06/17
Irwin Mitchell
"Let's understand each other" - a grown up conversation between surveyors and banks
Well, that's good then. The BBA and the RICS have entered into a joint "Memorandum of Understanding" about valuations, showing their...
09/06/17
Nicola Gooch
Election 2017: Planning Policy and Possible Compromise
Whilst the Conservatives remain the largest party in parliament, by a significant margin, they have fallen short of an overall majority...
09/06/17
Joanne Moseley
Can a worker be paid in lieu of taking a holiday?
Our laws provide that workers can only receive payment in lieu of untaken statutory holiday at the end of their employment. Under the...
08/06/17
Joanne Moseley
Nearly 10 million Britons are in insecure work, says union
Up to 10 million Britons or nearly a third of the UK workforce do not have secure employment, according to the GMB union, which has...
06/06/17
Nicola Gooch
The Community Infrastructure Levy and Care : Inspectors show sense on charging rates
One of the many frustrating things about CIL is the broad brush approach that some local authorities take when preparing their charging...
02/06/17
Nicola Gooch
Reflecting on the power of planning done well
Back in 2014, the RTPI published a report entitled "Success and Innovation in Planning - Creating Public Value" which highlighted...
30/05/17
Nicola Gooch
Election 2017 - Manifesto Week: Conservatives on Planning
The Conservatives have been in government for the last two years. During that time they have introduced two major pieces of planning...
18/05/17
Nicola Gooch
Election 2017 - Manifesto Week: Liberal Democrats on Planning
The Liberal Democrat Manifesto opens with an admission that they will not win the general election. The stated aim is to become the...
17/05/17
Nicola Gooch
Election 2017 - Manifesto Week: Labour on Planning
The three main political parties are releasing their manifestos this week and, as a result, I am afraid you are going to be hearing quite...
17/05/17
Irwin Mitchell
"Single Family Housing" gathers pace in the US
There is an interesting piece on Bisnow about the rise in the US of portfolios of institutionally rented houses ("Single family housing")...
10/05/17
Nicola Gooch
Supreme Court clarification of NPPF reinforces the role of plain English in interpreting policy
Earlier today the Supreme Court handed down its long awaiting judgment in the cases of Suffolk Coastal District Council v Hopkins Homes...
10/05/17
Nicola Gooch
Boundary Disputes: The 'Duty to Co-operate' fails when faced with clashes over strategic priorities
The 'duty to co-operate' appears to have been a problem for local planning authorities ever since it was introduced. The original...
03/05/17
Irwin Mitchell
A tale of 20 Cities
Hometrack figures released today show that although markets seem to be softening in London, Oxford, and Cambridge, other regional cities...
28/04/17
Nicola Gooch
Secretary of State refuses 6 recovered appeals on a single day in run up to snap election.
Last Friday (21st April) appears to have been a 'deck-clearing' day for the National Planning Casework Unit. In what was, no doubt, a...
24/04/17
Nicola Gooch
Metro Mayors: planning fireworks or another damp squib?
The nation is about to go to the polls. This time, however, the electorate in six regions of the UK will be tasked with electing their...
12/04/17